This article presents a comprehensive overview of Alibaba's Time Series Database (TSDB), covering its business panorama, covered scenarios, challenges, performance evolution, architecture, core compression and query technologies, stability mechanisms, and future development plans.
This article explains the architecture and mechanisms of Alibaba Cloud's Table Store load‑balancing system, detailing how it collects metrics, detects user‑access and machine hotspots, and automatically applies actions such as partition moves, splits, merges, and isolation to maintain high availability and performance.
This article explains how idle TCP connections are silently dropped by Alibaba Cloud security groups, causing Redis client timeouts and MySQL JDBC CommunicationsExceptions, and provides step‑by‑step diagnostics and configuration changes—including TCP keepalive and wait_timeout tweaks—to prevent the failures.
Alibaba Cloud’s president explains why cloud should be a CEO’s top concern, shares IDC market‑share data confirming its dominance in China, introduces the open‑source distributed‑transaction solution Fescar, and highlights several Alibaba‑driven open‑source projects shaping the cloud ecosystem.
Alibaba has fully rolled out IPv6 across its services, explaining the protocol’s massive address space, the urgent need caused by IPv4 exhaustion, and how this transition will enable limitless IoT devices, smarter cities, and stronger security for a wide range of industries.
The article explains how Alibaba leveraged large‑scale IPv6 deployment during the 2018 Double 11 shopping festival, detailing the end‑to‑end network architecture, big‑data‑driven optimization, security measures, and the strategic reasons behind moving from IPv4 to IPv6 across cloud, mobile, and IoT ecosystems.
From the first tentative steps of Alibaba Cloud in 2006 to the fierce CDN price wars and the rise of new players like UCloud and QingCloud, this article chronicles a ten‑year saga of how cloud computing emerged, matured, and reshaped China’s internet ecosystem, highlighting key investments, strategic battles, and the shifting attitudes of industry giants.
This article details Alibaba Cloud's evolution of SQL Server RDS, covering product growth, the challenges of read/write separation, technical evaluations of AlwaysOn versus Transactional Replication, cloud architecture iterations, and the final productized solution for high‑availability database services.
Alibaba introduces Open Channel SSD and Fusion Engine, a unified storage architecture that addresses modern data‑center challenges by enhancing performance, flexibility, cost efficiency, and determinism through open hardware interfaces and advanced user‑space storage engines.
This article explains how Alibaba's search offline platform combines massive batch and real‑time processing, leveraging Hadoop, HBase, Flink (Blink) and a unified full‑incremental model to handle tens of billions of daily records and millions of TPS for diverse business lines.
This article reviews Alibaba's MaxCompute evolution from ODPS to a unified, multi‑cluster big‑data platform, detailing its architecture, development tools, large‑scale deployments, performance optimizations, typical workload scenarios, and why it is the preferred choice for enterprise data processing.
Alibaba Cloud introduces the F3 FPGA instance, a dual‑chip VU9P‑based accelerator that combines a unified HDK/SDK platform, secure IP marketplace, and ultra‑high‑speed interconnects to make FPGA acceleration more accessible, flexible, and cost‑effective for cloud users.
This guide walks through preparing an Alibaba Cloud ECS Linux 7.4 instance, installing Docker CE, verifying the installation with a hello‑world container, pulling the GitLab CE image, configuring and running the GitLab container, and troubleshooting common issues such as port conflicts and memory limits.
This article outlines Alibaba Cloud Redis development guidelines, covering key naming conventions, value design, command usage, client configuration, lifecycle management, and recommended tools, providing practical recommendations to avoid common pitfalls, improve performance, and ensure reliable operation of Redis in production environments.
This article compares several Redis cluster solutions—including Codis‑style architecture, Alibaba Cloud ApsaraCache, Baidu BDRP 2.0, JD's custom implementation, the official Redis Cluster, AWS ElasticCache, and Baidu Tieba's ksarch‑saas—detailing their components, sharding methods, migration strategies, and deployment scenarios.
This article walks through disabling firewalld on a CentOS 7 Alibaba Cloud server, installing iptables‑services, adding a complete set of firewall rules, explaining each rule’s purpose, and finally enabling the iptables service to ensure a secure LAMP environment.
At the 2018 Percona Live conference in California, Alibaba Cloud received the MySQL Community Corporate Contributor Award for the first time, recognizing its extensive contributions—including Multiple Source Replication, FlashBack, Sequence, column compression, dynamic column addition, persistent auto‑increment, SemiSync optimization, InnoDB patches, and cross‑engine backup—to the MySQL and MariaDB ecosystems.
This article explains the architecture, data model, and multi‑tenant load‑balancing strategies of Alibaba Cloud Table Store, detailing the challenges of distributed NoSQL systems and presenting practical solutions for resource quantification, fairness, trigger timing, and SLA‑driven automation.
This article explains how to implement various flow‑control strategies—static rate limiting, dynamic resource‑based limits, connection and concurrency controls—and demonstrates a practical, configuration‑center‑driven approach to globally throttle asynchronous MQ consumers using Alibaba Cloud ACM and Java.
The Ministry of Science and Technology unveiled China’s new AI development plan, highlighting Alibaba Cloud’s ET City Brain as a national open innovation platform that is already optimizing traffic, emergency response, and resource allocation in cities like Hangzhou and Suzhou, while the government sets ambitious industry targets for the next decade.
This article explains the evolution of Alibaba Cloud's high‑performance load balancing, covering early LVS modes, Tengine integration, architectural improvements, and multi‑region high‑availability designs that together deliver massive throughput, fault tolerance, and flexible deployment for cloud services.
This article explains Alibaba Cloud's Server Load Balancer (SLB) architecture and its four-tier high‑availability design—application processing, cluster forwarding, cross‑zone disaster recovery, and cross‑region disaster recovery—detailing both product features and user‑side best practices.
This article explains the fundamentals of video streaming, media transcoding, and CDN technologies, then details Alibaba Cloud's live streaming architecture—including capture, preprocessing, encoding, push‑stream, transcoding, distribution, and client playback—along with business functions, monitoring, and typical application scenarios.
The article reviews the three historic AI booms, explains why today’s cloud‑based visual intelligence represents a distinct era, outlines five key factors for successful visual AI, and showcases real‑world Alibaba Cloud applications such as product search, city‑wide monitoring, medical diagnosis, and visual advertising.
Alibaba Cloud’s chief architect Tang Hong recounts the company’s evolution from its 2009 launch, detailing the Apsara operating system’s milestones, massive scaling achievements, virtualization and container innovations, and future directions in lightweight virtualization, high‑speed hardware, and heterogeneous security, illustrating how open‑source collaboration fuels its growth.
Alibaba’s IT platform evolved from a simple employee directory in 2013 to a comprehensive, self‑developed ecosystem—including cloud‑based Wi‑Fi, soft‑phone, wireless casting, device management, and unified audio‑video conferencing—that reduces costs, enhances security, and delivers seamless, mobile‑first office experiences across global campuses.
The article chronicles Wang Jian’s journey from a psychology professor to Alibaba’s CTO, detailing his pivotal role in building the "Flying Sky" cloud operating system, pioneering the "City Brain" project, and shaping China’s cloud computing landscape despite fierce internal criticism.
The article explains Serverless and Functions‑as‑a‑Service, their relationship with micro‑services, typical use cases such as bursty workloads and event‑driven data processing, and discusses the operational, cost, and strategic implications for cloud platforms like Alibaba Cloud.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud designed a high‑performance local storage solution—leveraging Virtio‑blk, SPDK, and NVMe SSDs—to meet the massive peak pressure, ultra‑low latency, and high IOPS demands of the Alipay red‑packet business, and how the technology is now available in the public cloud.
Alibaba unveiled its industry‑first immersion liquid‑cooled server clusters, achieving a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) close to 1.0, detailing the technology’s design, green‑computing benefits, and the challenges of scaling this revolutionary cooling method for data centers.
Alibaba confirmed that its "Kirin" project is an industry‑first immersion liquid‑cooling server cluster that cools servers with liquid instead of air, achieving a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) close to the theoretical limit of 1.0 and promising significant energy savings for data centers.
This tutorial walks you through purchasing an Alibaba Cloud server, configuring the Linux environment, installing JDK, Tomcat, and MySQL, setting up environment variables, deploying a WAR file, and adjusting MySQL character settings, all with clear screenshots and command examples.
This article outlines a cost‑effective, scalable backend architecture built on Alibaba Cloud services—including VPC, RDS, ECS, OSS, and security measures—to support the early stages of a mobile and web application and to enable gradual performance upgrades as traffic grows.
Alibaba’s transformation from e‑commerce leader to tech powerhouse is highlighted by its Feitian middleware platform, a cloud‑based, highly available solution that supports diverse industries, enables massive transaction volumes, and exemplifies the evolution of large‑scale distributed architectures pioneered since Alibaba’s early IOE days.
In just one year, Alibaba built two world‑class green data centers in Zhangbei, harnessing abundant wind and solar power to achieve record‑low PUE, modular construction, and advanced cooling, thereby boosting cloud, big data and AI services for millions of enterprises in northern China.
This guide explains how to enable Alibaba Cloud Data Transmission Service (DTS) with the dts-ads-writer plugin to continuously synchronize changes from an RDS for MySQL instance to a real‑time write table in an analytic database, covering prerequisites, configuration, and monitoring steps.
This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud Data Transmission and the dts-ads-writer plugin to continuously synchronize MySQL RDS tables to an analytical database, covering prerequisites, configuration files, step‑by‑step setup, and important considerations for reliable data replication.
This tutorial demonstrates how to containerize a Java web application with Docker, build and test it using Maven, create a custom Tomcat‑based image, push the image to Alibaba Cloud’s registry, and finally deploy the service through Alibaba Cloud Container Service.
The article analyzes why stability, not raw performance, should be the primary criterion when choosing a cloud provider, describes a 7‑day benchmark across AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud and UCloud, and presents detailed results for CPU, memory, disk, database and storage stability.
Facing tens of thousands of SaaS users, we built a cloud‑native ERP on Alibaba Cloud, employing SLB, ECS, RDS, and OCS, and implemented horizontal and vertical database sharding with a custom DBWrapper layer to achieve scalable, high‑performance, and cost‑effective data access.
This article reviews a decade of cloud security experience and outlines the key challenges of operations security in public cloud environments, offering concrete solutions such as VPC isolation, encrypted VPNs, RAM policies, Linux key‑based login, Windows RDP port changes, privileged‑account management, and ActionTrail auditing.
This article outlines how a startup progressively upgraded its image‑centric product architecture on Alibaba Cloud—from rapid ECS/RDS deployment, through OSS + CDN acceleration, to caching with Memcache and horizontal scaling with SLB load balancing—offering practical guidance for similar teams.
Gaode’s senior operations expert shares how moving its mapping services to Alibaba Cloud transformed its IT infrastructure, boosting service availability to 99.99%, reducing operations staff by two‑thirds, automating processes, and leveraging cloud services such as ECS, RDS, MaxCompute, and DRC for scalable, reliable operations.
Traffic hijacking, a form of man‑in‑the‑middle attack that injects unwanted ads or modifies web content, can be mitigated by HTTPS, which uses SSL/TLS for server authentication, encryption, and integrity, and the article explains the attack methods, HTTPS fundamentals, and practical deployment steps including Alibaba Cloud support.
This article explains how to build a large‑scale, real‑time vehicle monitoring system using Apache Storm and Kafka on Alibaba Cloud, covering the challenges of big‑data ingestion, system architecture, deployment steps, performance testing, and practical lessons learned.
Using Apache JMeter, this study objectively benchmarks hot object storage performance (RT and TPS) and pricing across five major cloud vendors—AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Qiniu, and Huawei—evaluating download/upload speeds for various file sizes and calculating a performance‑to‑price ratio to guide optimal provider selection.
This article presents a systematic performance and cost‑effectiveness comparison of six major cloud object‑storage providers—AWS, Azure, Qiniu, Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Kingsoft Cloud—using JMeter‑driven upload/download tests across various file sizes and analyzing price data to rank their overall value.
A sudden shutdown of an Alibaba Cloud server revealed it had been hijacked as a bot, prompting a step‑by‑step remediation that highlights the importance of basic security hardening such as securing Redis, changing default SSH settings, and enabling cloud monitoring alerts.
This article details the experience of upgrading a sample site to ASP.NET 5 RC1 on Linux, configuring Kestrel as the web server, adding SQL Server access via Entity Framework 7, handling Alibaba Cloud RDS settings, and discussing performance issues observed with Alibaba Cloud load balancing.
The article details how Alibaba Cloud's multi‑layered enterprise architecture, built on service‑oriented frameworks, distributed databases, and message queues, enabled record‑breaking Double 11 transactions while offering linear performance scaling, high reliability, and cost‑effective operations for large‑scale internet applications.
Alibaba Cloud and the Chinese Academy of Sciences unveiled a quantum encryption communication service on a public cloud, establishing Quantum Portals for inter‑city data‑center networking and offering unconditionally secure data transmission, marking a milestone for both quantum research and cloud computing.
On September 8, Alibaba launched its QianDao Lake data center in Zhejiang, employing sealed deep‑lake water cooling that eliminates electric refrigeration for 90% of operation, achieving a PUE as low as 1.17, a water‑use efficiency of 0.197, and showcasing custom hardware and renewable energy integration to support its cloud and big‑data services.
The article examines Alibaba Cloud’s recent security incident, compares the “babysitter” model with AWS’s shared‑responsibility approach, and discusses how overly‑protective cloud security can affect user awareness, third‑party vendors, and the overall health of China’s cloud security ecosystem.
On July 30, Alibaba Cloud announced its ambitious plan to develop a general‑purpose quantum computer within the next 10‑15 years, highlighting the potential for speeds billions of times faster than today’s supercomputers, and sharing a behind‑the‑scenes tour of its new quantum research laboratory.
The article presents an overview of Alibaba's Data Replication Center (DRC), detailing its architecture, real‑time cross‑region synchronization capabilities, consistency and latency guarantees, deployment strategies, and its use cases on Alibaba Cloud such as RDS migration and multi‑active e‑commerce workloads.
This interview with Alibaba’s DRDS expert Shen Xun reveals how the distributed relational database service evolved from an internal tool to a cloud‑native solution, detailing its architecture, scalability advantages, middleware ecosystem, and real‑world performance during massive events like Double‑11.
